Welcome to your Thursday open thread. It’s winter again! Arghhhh! Anything else on your mind? Share it below.
Ooohhh…delicious. I think we should call this “shots fired.”
Politico sorted through the confusion today, reporting that “Gingrich is likely to confirm his ‘intention to announce,’ but not actually unveil an exploratory committee.” But before the Gingrich team walk back, C-SPAN host Greta Wodele Brawner asked Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) what he thought of Gingrich running for president and Coburn didn’t seem to be too enthused:
COBURN: He is undoubtedly the smartest man I’ve ever met. He is a thinker. He has great vision. The question to me is, does he have the capability to lead the country and having served under him in the House, he’s probably not one I would choose to support in a presidential primary. … We need somebody that’s soft and wide eyed open and is stable and is learned and is going to consistently bring us together rather than alienate us. … We need somebody whose eye is critical but is not harsh in their manner and I don’t mean to say he’s necessarily harsh. But I’m looking for a leader that can bring us together.
Oh my. I do believe that Tom Coburn implied that Newt Gingrich is crazy. I wonder how that will play out.
Palm trees and sunshine in Wisconsin? Fox News is so desperate to tell a story of “union thugs” that they are showing videos from Sacramento and claiming it’s in Wisconsin.
In reality, the long protest in Madison has been remarkably civil. As a testament to that, conservative media outlets are having a hard time finding examples of on-scene violence in Wisconsin that really bring their alternative narrative home. They’ve even gone so far as to claim their own reporters are under assault when they are not. Indeed, just as they accuse unions of busing in protesters from out of state, they’ve bussed in out-of-state footage, to make a case that can’t be made by the facts.
Check out this clip from Monday night’s episode of the O’Reilly Factor, a lower-quality version of which has gone viral on social media sites.
Fox is apparently very hurt by the chants of “Fox News lies.” Perhaps they should stop lying? Of course, I’m a dirty, stinking liberal so they won’t listen to me.